What are the three goals of anthropology



Here are the questions you wrote for the exam. Study them carefully. Some are very good, some are poorly worded, and some are utterly confused. We can eliminate specific sources of confusion in our review session, but only if you can identify what needs clarification. Note that there are a number of important points and a few articles and book chapters that have no questions. Probably about 50% of your exam will come from this list. I will supply the rest. See you Friday.

1. What are the three goals of anthropology? Explain.

2. What are the four subdisciplines in anthropology? Explain.

3. What type of work is ethnography based on? Explain.

4. Who is Ibn Khaldun?

5. What is assabiya, what is umran, and how are they related?

6. What is ethnocentrism?

7. Explain the history of anthropology in terms of colonialism.

8. What is the difference between Geertz and Roseberry as to why the natives ignored Geertz?

9. What is Roseberry's Marxist view of how to understand the culture of a society?

10. What is the difference between side-betting and center betting?

11. What is the functionalism analysis of the Balinese cockfight?

12. What are the four views of anthropology?

13. According to Roseberry, what are the two methods of critique?

14. In his chapter on foraging for a living, Lee dispels the myth that people who rely on foraging are just surviving and are backward. How does he support this idea and how is it different from how previous anthropologists, such as E.B. Tylor, viewed foraging societies?

15. Compare Lee's outlook on human nature with Chagnon's.

16. The Yanomamo have been termed "the original affluent society". Why is this the case and how are they no less advanced or developed than post-industrialist societies?

17. What was the Yanomamo's food source?

18. Explain the issue of insulting the meat for the Yanomamo.

19. About how many hours a week do the Yanomamo work to get their food? Why is this suprising?

20. What does Wolf argue is the main fundamental error concerning the way that social sciences (anthropology, psychology, economics, etc.) examine human behavior? What solution does he propose to this problem?

21. What does Wolf think Sociology does to the world? And does he think it is a good thing or a bad thing?

22. What is modernization theory? Explain the critiques of it and explain why the study of history is useless under it.

23. How does modernization theory differ from the world systems theory? Which does Wolf prefer?

24. In Wolf's article he discusses Marx and talks about how he argued "against those who wanted to universalize Society, or the Market, or the Political Process..." What did he then go on to say about the different modes of production in human history?

25. Do Wolf's beliefs mirror those of Weber or those of Marx? How?

26. Though Rabinow does not favor Wolf, the two share the same/similar ideas/concepts concerning cultural dynamics. What are these similarities/ Discuss these concepts.

27. How does history tie in with the Moroccan culture and affect Rabinow's fieldwork?

28. Discuss French influence in Morocco.

29. What do Moroccans value most in their society?

30. What is a wayward/passenger woman? What does it entail?

31. Discuss the practice theory/Wardlow's view of practice theory.

32. How are women valued in contrast to men in Papua New Guinea according to Wardlow?

33. Explain reflexivity within the research/fieldwork of Rabinow and Wardlow.

34. I am male and have two sisters. My mom has two brothers. Her brothers are both married. One brother has a son and a daughter. The other brother has no children. My father has two sisters and a brother. Both sisters are married, but the brother is not. One sister has 2 sons, and the other sister has 2 daughters and a son. Draw and label an Eskimo Kinship diagram for the above family (with “me” as ego).

35. Why is kinship important to study?

36. What is unique about Hawaiian Kinship?

37. What is a parallel cousin and how is it different from a cross cousin?

38. What is the Kinship terminology that our culture follows?

39. Draw a matrilineage of three generations in each of the diagrams below.

40. Draw a patrilineage of three generations in each of the diagrams below.

41. Count the potential parallel cousin marriages in the first diagram.

42. Label the potential cross cousin marriages in the second diagram.

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Some questions that did not make it on to the list:

1) What were ways the government was trying to change the Berber culture? How did the Berbers react?

2) According to the article, "On the Sluggishness of Cities," what is the biggest misconception about vilage life and how is it in reality?

3) According to Malinowski, what are three ways of studying society?

4) Explain Malinkowski's concept of holism.

5) What are some benefits of the Kula exchange?

6) Compare the Kula exchange system with our modern capitalism system.

7) In a structural functionalist theory, how are parts of society viewed?

1.)  What are 2 factors that make Chagnon controversial? 

2.)  Give one example of the way Chagnon interacted with the Yanamomo people? 

3.)  How does Chagnon portray the Yanamomo people? 

4.)  How does Chagnon suggest people stay together?   

5.) Why (according to Chagnon) does village fissioning occur? (as a result of what)

6.) why did chignon decide to portray the violent aspect of yanamomo life?

7.) Chagnon describes the Yanamomo as a patriarchal culture. What does he mean by this?

8.) Why did chignon bribe the yanamomo people and how did he do this?

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